On Aug. 7, 1974 - the day before Richard Nixon resigned the presidency - a 23-year-old Frenchman by the name of Philippe Petit did something extraordinary: Early that morning, he stepped out on a wire rigged between the tops of the Twin Towers at the World Trade Center in lower Manhattan and walked, without a net, sans harness, from one skyscraper to the other and back again. And back and forth ...
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